Chosen Ones ️ All the founders of Cursor—MIT dropouts aged 25 to 26—are now billionaires after SpaceX acquired their company for $60 billion Their story remains one of the craziest in tech history: → Four MIT students started a side project in 2022 (originally focused on CAD/mechanical engineering) → Pivoted massively and created Cursor, the AI coding tool loved by developers, helping popularize vibe coding → Reached a $10 billion valuation → Decided copilots weren’t enough, so they shifted to agent-based AI teammates with proprietary models → Needed massive computational resources to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic → Meanwhile, xAI was losing the code race → Elon realized catching up could take years, so he skipped the line and bought Cursor for $60 billion → Cursor gained access to the world’s largest GPU cluster and computational resources, while SpaceXAI secured the leader in coding → Founders became billionaires; the top 50 employees each received around $20 million to $500 million This is what makes startups so magical.